1. Section 1: A New Deal Fights the Depression
Chapter 15 The New Deal
Section 1: A New Deal Fights the Depression

2. Objectives…
- Describe the goals of the New Deal. - Identify the key programs of the New Deal and explain how these programs attempted to provide solutions to the social and economic problems associated with the Great Depression.

3. FDR the Man… Aristocratic family
Believed government could make peoples lives better.
1921: Stricken with Polio…
1932: Elected 32nd President
The only 4 term President

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democrat
New York

5. “Once I spent two years in bed trying to move my big toe… After that anything else seems easy” - FDR

7. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt The most active First Lady in U. S
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt The most active First Lady in U.S. history.

8. Eleanor Roosevelt FDR’s “social conscience”& advisor
Supports minorities & the poor
Writes, speaks & travels as the “eyes & ears” of FDR

9. FDR promises America… FDR promises… - a “new deal”…
- “bold and persistent experimentation”…

10. The Election of 1932

11. The Democrats win both houses of Congress.
The Election of 1932
FDR Hoover
Electoral Vote:
Popular Vote: 23m m
Percentage: 57.4% %
The Democrats win both houses of Congress.

12. Inauguration Day 1933…

13. 1933 Inaugural Address
FDR was symbol of confidence and hope for Americans…
“The only thing we have to fear,… is fear itself”

16. The Election of 1932

17. I & E: 20th Amendment The “Lame Duck” amendment
A person who continues to hold office after his or her replacement has been elected.

18. I & E: Brain Trust”…

19. What were the three main focuses of the New Deal?...
What was the New Deal?...
What were the three main focuses of the New Deal?...
The 3 Rs…
R______

20. The New New Deal

21. The New Deal

22. I & E: The Hundred Days…

23. Why were Roosevelt’s Fireside chats significant?...

26. The idiom “prime the pump”
To do something in order to make something succeed, especially to spend money
Get the economy going:
- Lower taxes
- Spend money
- Deficit spending

27. Federal Program
What was the immediate
purpose? ...
What was the long term
goal? ...
Business Assistance & Reform
Emergency Banking Act
Glass-Steagall Banking Act (1933)
Federal Securities Act
National Industrial Recovery
Act (NIRA)
Farm Relief/ Rural Develop.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Employment Projects
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Federal Emergency
Relief Administration (FERA)
Public Works
Administration
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Housing
Home Owners Loan Corporation

28. Emergency Banking Relief Act
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Authorized the Treasury Dept. to inspect and close banks
To restore the public confidence in banks

29. Glass-Steagall Banking Act
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Established the Federal Insurance Corporation
Reassured Americans that their money was safe!

30. Federal Securities Act
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Requires corporations to provide complete and truthful information about their stock offerings.
Restore American confidence in the stock market.
Leads to the Securities and Exchange Commission which sets rules against investors “fixing” or “rigging” the market for their own profit.

31. National Industrial Recovery Act
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Creates the Public Works Administration (PWA)
Also created the National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Create jobs and reduce unemployment
Provides money to states for the construction of schools and community buildings.
Promote recovery by stopping wage cuts, falling prices, and layoffs.

32. Agricultural Adjustment Act
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Raise crop prices by lowering production
Save American farmers from bankruptcy (going out of business).

33. Tennessee Valley Authority
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Create jobs by repairing and constructing old and new dams.
Lower unemployment
Flood control
Hydroelectric power

34. Civilian Conservation Corp
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Jobs building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping soil-erosion and flood-control projects.
$25.00 per month in wages sent home.
Planted 200 million trees to prevent another dust bowl.

35. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Direct relief to the needy in the shape of food, clothing, and jobs.
Americans performing meaningful work that enabled them to gain confidence and self-respect.

36. Public Works Administration
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Provides money to states for the construction of schools and community buildings.
Jobs

37. Civil Works Administration
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Created 4 million jobs
Built 40,000 schools
Hired 50,000 teachers
Constructed more than ½ million miles of roads

38. Home Owners Loan Corporation
What was its immediate purpose?
What was its long-term goal?
Provided government loans to Americans facing foreclosure and eviction from their homes.
To keep Americans from becoming homeless
Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which continues to furnish loans for home mortgages and repairs today

39. The New Deal Comes Under Attack
Objective … Identify the critics and describe the criticism of the New Deal.

40. The New Deal Comes Under Attack
Liberal critics believed that the New Deal…
Conservative critics believed that the New Deal…

43. The New Deal Comes Under Attack
Critic
Describe the criticism….
Father
Charles
Coughlin
Dr.
Francis
Townsend
Senator
Huey
Long

44. Father Coughlin “The Radio Priest” - 40M listeners

46. Dr. Francis Townsend One Concern: Poverty among the elderly … - Age 60 receive a $200 monthly pension - The $200 must be spent

48. Townsend Rally 1936

49. Huey Long The Share the Wealth Plan… Proclaims he will make
“Every Man a King”

50. Huey Long Share Our Wealth Plan
Income over $1M - 100% tax
Seize assets over $5M
All Americans get an income, house, car, pension & education
Assassinated

52. “I’ve got the engine started, but ….”

53. What did FDR propose when the Supreme Court declared two New Deal programs (NIRA & Agricultural Adjustment Act) unconstitutional?

54. FDR: SC Packing Plan
The proposal: Add 6 justices to the SC… new total 15
Public rationale: The SC is over worked
Hidden motive: Change the balance of the SC

55. FDR: SC Packing Plan
Why? Conservative justices declared parts of the New Deal, unconstitutional.
Congress rejects & FDR is criticized for trying to undermine the SC